Fostering Maximum Development of the Individual

Whatever is done to improve high school education must be related
to some conception of the nature of learners and of the learning
process. For several generations our thinking about high school education
has been based primarily upon behavioristic views of what people
are like and how they behave. Those concepts may have been useful
guides when high school goals were simpler, curricula were limited,
and the pace of societal change was slower. Secondary education of
today and tomorrow must be much more complex and geared to the
satisfaction of quite different student and societal needs.To meet these
demands, new theoretical concepts are required to orient our thinking
and to point the way to new techniques and processes designed to meet
current needs. Fortunately, such concepts are available in modern
humanistic psychology.

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